Ecology and environment
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Researchers team up with Chinese botanists on machine learning, flower-recognition project
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Has this ever happened to you? You’re out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you’re stumped —…
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Protecting Wildlife under Imperfect Observation
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Government: Plan for Ecosystem Services
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Experiments in Indoor Localization and Vehicle Classification
Sensing, Computing and Communication are essential components of an IoT system. The talk will cover two experiments in indoor localization for harsh environments and vehicle classification for road traffic monitoring. Details about the system specifications,…
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Real-time Air Quality Monitoring Network Using Low-Cost Devices
India has the dubious distinction of having 10 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. The number of government air quality monitoring stations in these cities, baring New Delhi (which has 12),…
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Achieving Household Energy Breakdown at Scale
Energy breakdown: the process of breaking down a home’s energy consumption into constituent appliances, is considered an important step towards energy saving in the residential setting. Most current energy breakdown techniques exploit IoT hardware to…
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Cultivating the Long tail of Environmental Observations
CLEO (Cultivating the Long tail of Environmental Observations) is a collaborative project between the Sensing and Energy Research Group at MSR and the E3 group at MCR Connections. It relies on the processing power of…
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Preventing flood disasters with Cortana Intelligence Suite
By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for…